Portrait of Copernicus
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Thomas H. Broman

Associate Professor, History of Science and Medical History & Bioethics
Chair, History of Science

Office: Room 230, Bradley Memorial Building
1225 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A.
Tel: 608-263-1562
Fax: 608-262-3984
Email: thbroman@wisc.edu
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Special interests and recent research:

Science and medicine in the Enlightenment, the role of science in the public sphere, 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history.

Recent publications:

  • "The Medical Sciences." In David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 4, "The Eightenth Century," ed. Roy Porter. (2003, Cambridge University Press).
  • "Science and Civil Society" cover imageScience and Civil Society, with Lynn K. Nyhart (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
  • "On the Epistemology of Criticism. Science, Criticism and the German Public Sphere 1760-1800." Presented at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Symposium, "Literaturwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsforschung," Heidelberg (September, 1998).
  • "The Habermasian Public Sphere and Science in the Enlightenment." History of Science 1998, 36:123 49.
  • "German Academic Medicine" cover imageThe Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
  • "Rethinking Professionalization: Theory, Practice, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century German Medicine." The Journal of Modern History 1995, 67:835 72.
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